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The entertainer is suing Essex Police for holding him in 2007 during an investigation into the death of Stuart Lubbock, a father-of-two whose body was discovered following a party at Barrymore's Essex home in 2001.

Barrymore was arrested along with two other men on suspicion of murdering the 31-year-old, although the case against them was dropped due to insufficient evidence.

Michael Barrymore leaves the inquest into the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2002Credit:
REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid

According to the Daily Mirror the 64-year-old is seeking "aggravated and exemplary damages" for his "wrongful arrest and detention" which led him to suffer "loss and damage namely distress, shock, anxiety and damage to his reputation".